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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 699244" data-attributes="member: 259">I know this is borderline blasphemy, but you could also do what I do with the roleplaying-expert, tactics-challenged player IMC:  I explicitly cut her breaks that I don't cut the other players.  This is for a simple reason:  I cut everyone as much slack as they want me to cut.  Some players, especially those that groove on the tactics part of the game, don't want any slack.  Other players, especially those that groove on developing a complex, involved character with multiple plotlines, don't want to risk losing all their work due to bad dice rolls or hasty decisions.Whatever a player wants is fine with me, and it's easy to treat different players how they want to be treated.As a DM, you may not want to offer rules-advice in the middle of combat, but you can provide hints through how you describe things.  Is she standing facing the dragon alone, and she decides to fire at it with her crossbow from within its reach?Tell her, before you resolve the action, that she's suddenly aware that her companions are nowhere nearby, and the dragon is swooping down toward her, and she can feel its almost overpowering presence, and each claw is long as a dagger, and the muscles corded on its feet are each bulging larger than her torso, and she suspects that if she stands her ground now, it may be the last decision she ever makes.  Then ask her again what she wants to do.With the proper scene description, many players can be made to see the light.  It's not railroading players, it's simply describing things so that they can accurately predict the consequences of their actions.  And it's especially useful to do for players that are unfamiliar with the rules or with tactics.Daniel</blockquote>

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